WANTED: WEAPONS OF FATE ARTICLES

August 11, 2009 - Swedish developers GRIN are facing severe financial difficulties, with reports coming to light that its Barcelona and Gothenburg offices have closed, and that its main Stockholm office may follow suit.

March 30, 2009 - When the final bullet was fired at the end of the Universal Pictures movie Wanted, were you thinking, "I wish I could continue the adventure on my own"? If so, then Wanted: Weapons of Fate was made for you. Continuing the story of the movie, Wanted follows Wesley as he attempts to uncover the truth about his mother, a journey that allows gamers to take control of Wesley's daddy, Cross, in several flashback levels.

March 23, 2009 - After a relatively quiet January the PC scene revved up in February with a flurry of top-notch games, including Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, Empire: Total War, and Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment. But now that the days are growing longer and the sun is getting higher in the Northern Hemisphere, it's time to set our eyes forward to the next three months. Yes, it's time for IGN PC to examine the Spring 2009 lineup.
There are certainly notable games on the horizon, but there aren't many sure-fire blockbusters. With Dawn of War II and Empire out, we're still waiting for the developers and publishers to reload and announce their next big projects, and even then those games will be far in the future. So the next three months will prove interesting to see which games can rise up and draw us in.
The picture for the rest of the year will clear up when the E3 trade show arrives in early June. By then, spring will be heading out the door and making way for summer. But until then, you can look forward to the following games.

February 8, 2009 - Sure, you've read my hands-on report of Wanted and watched IGN's two level walkthroughs, but did you know that the videogame is going to have a different ending on the PC? I didn't know until I made it to the Wanted videogame panel at the New York Comic-Con this afternoon. Apparently, the "vulgar" ending PC users are getting missed the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the title due to different deadlines for ESRB submissions. Aside from that, there were just a few tidbits worth mentioning to your over-informed brain and they all had to do with the people playing characters.

January 28, 2009 - If you're a bad guy in the Wanted: Weapons of Fate world, you should probably start wearing a knife-proof cup. Sure, when you think of this comic/movie franchise that's now gearing up for its videogame debut, curving bullets into people's brains probably comes to mind, but after a full day of seeing and playing this game, I can tell you it's the knife attacks that will keep you coming back for more. There's people getting stabbed in the balls and lifted off their feet, there are blade-to-blade fights, there are guys getting kicked in the knee and having their throats slit so that blood sprays onto the screen, there's cutlery getting buried in chests, and there's even the option for your assassin to reach across cover and stab baddies in the head.
I don't mean to sound like Michael Myers here, but all that gets me frisky.

December 4, 2008 - It seems like ever major Hollywood film has a videogame tie-in these days, and if a movie happens to be based on a comic series or graphic novel, you can pretty much bet on seeing a game released alongside the flick. Sometimes that's good news for gamers, and other times it makes us quietly weep.

October 30, 2008 - We got our first look at Wanted: Weapons of Fate at this year's E3, and although the version we saw was very early in development, we were intrigued by what we saw. Based on the film (and to some extend the graphic novels) of the same name, Wanted is a third-person action game with some innovative ideas about cover and gunfire.

July 16, 2008 - Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group (UPDPG) is creating a video game based on Universal Pictures' blockbuster action-thriller Wanted, starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie. The game will be published worldwide by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and is being developed by renowned game developer GRIN, best known for its work on the Tom Clancy: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter series and the upcoming Bionic Commando. The film, which was released on June 27, 2008, has earned $192 million in worldwide box office to date.

July 16, 2008 - The feature film Wanted, based on the graphic novel series of the same name, features Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy as assassins who belong to a mysterious and deadly secret society. In the comic and film, the character Wesley goes from being a timid nerd to a badass killing machine on the hunt for answers.